piwheels

New Tensorflow releases for Raspberry Pi

Last month, the Tensorflow team at Google announced official support for Raspberry Pi, by releasing pre-build binaries of v1.9.0 to piwheels.org. Since then, two new releases (v1.10.1 and v1.11.0) have been made and they are now available on piwheels.org. To install the latest Tensorflow on...

How to work out the missing dependencies for a Python package

When you install a compiled Python wheel, whether it's from PyPI or piwheels, it will likely depend on some shared libraries, specifically certain .so files (shared object files) in order to be used. If you've ever been in the situation where you've installed a library but importing it fails, it's...

New opencv builds

The opencv maintainers don't release source distribution for the packages, so Dave has been building Raspberry Pi wheels manually from source on GitHub. They have also chosen to split releases into four separate...